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The more we watch animals, the more we can see them show off their intelligence. A bunch of different animals have been observed making and using tools -- and sharing how to use them with their friends. Here are just a few examples of some animals using tools in fascinating...

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I've seen hundreds and hundreds of dolphins, mostly on two lucky trips out into the Monterey Bay. They were primarily common and bottlenose dolphins, the standard representatives of Delphic civilization in my mind. While beautiful, those animals look nothing like the southern right whale dolphin, which looks like an orca whale...

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This sponsored post is produced by Darren Keyes, Director of Business Intelligence at Fuse Powered. For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘cohorting’ refers to creating user segments, or technically, a group of people banded together as a group. You can segment a user base in many different ways. Some of...

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Initially released in September 2011, Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' has just recently become a chart-topping hit song. Beginning with an impressively choreographed video by the Harvard baseball team, lip dubs and cover versions of 'Call Me Maybe' on YouTube have shot through the roof. This week, a mashup of...

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Our enlightened times now herald greater thoughtfulness towards our fellow sapients. New undersea robots like the Knifefish, together with a heavy dose of fiscal reality, have begun to close this chapter of military history....

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When 72,000 people get together in a stadium to watch an NFL football game, you may as well have a small city on your hands. And the logistical challenges associated with making game day go smoothly are similar: Infrastructure like power and plumbing needs to work; food needs to be...

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Whether or not NYC is the next tech mecca, my moving here is not a reflection on that, one way or the other. I am here for mostly personal reasons. It's where I grew up. It feels like it's where I belong right now, so this is where I am....

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Bats Get Pitchy to Make 3-D Echolocation Map | Wired.com “The navy is really interested in what we do because manmade sonar has come nowhere close to what bats and dolphins can do,” Bates said. Here’s hoping echolocation is the next trend after geolocation....

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The Miami Dolphins teamed with IBM to deploy a cloud-based analytics system that helps stadium staff to be proactive about potentially disruptive events, such as parking bottlenecks, concession stand inventory shortages, and inclement weather....

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PlayHaven, a real-time mobile marketing startup that has enabled a four-fold increase in in-app purchases for its game developer customers, is adding new monetization features that will help developers make even more money. PlayHaven’s new monetization features use analytics and user segmentation to help developers target their best customers...

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GoPro is a company that sells cameras geared towards extreme circumstances, like mountain biking, whitewater kayaking (both featured in the video on their website), and even falling out of airplanes or swimming with dolphins. Another thing GoPro apparently wants to get extreme about is deleting reviews they don't like....

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The BBC reports this week that the US Navy is looking to replace its fleet of specially trained sea mammals with mine-detecting robots. For nearly 50 years, the Navy has been using dolphins and sea lions to detect, and sometimes defuse underwater mines, as part of its Sea Mammal...

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Spoiler: It looks awesome. Once in a while, very -- very -- rarely, dolphins will abandon their standard serenity and go on a romp that we humans refer to, aptly, as a "stampede." The phenomenon, which involves sub-pods joining together into one splashy social -- and which does indeed...

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When he’s not trying to save the Internet, Internet granddaddy Vint Cerf turns his attention to other, more zany pursuits — like finding a way to talk to animals. At the latest TED conference in California, Cerf says he envisions a future Internet that could be used to expand communication beyond humans to other species,...

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Ever wanted to sleep inside a shark? Me neither, I've just always wanted to cuddle. But if you're in college and want to experiment before settling down in a relationship, make sure to get your roommate blackout drunk first. Then when he wakes up in the morning and can't...

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A new engine and a new outlook make Ubisoft's latest historical stab-'em-up smoother and faster-moving than ever; just what the series needs after a couple of lacklustre sequelsIt's surprising how lightly the Creative Director of AC3, Alex Hutchinson, takes his charge. I asked him how things were going on the...

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Don’t worry, there are 2,498 more cat gifs where these came from. (Photo: Giphy) It used to be that when you needed a GIF you were beholden to typical search engines, trying out different combinations of terms until the perfect animation of a blasé Lucille Bluth sipping a martini finally popped...

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In a lot of things, being the best generally leads to victory. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the London Olympics? He wins the gold. A hosting company has the best recorded uptime? It takes home an award. Google launches the fastest consumer broadband available in the US?...

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Rosemary Dukelow was eight months into a solo, round-the-world trip when she boarded a cargo ship bound for Savannah, Georgia, in January 2011 - as the ship's sole passenger. Up until that point, she had been a fixture at Internet cafes, constantly checking itineraries and updating the blog she...